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PSN hackers claim to have 2+ million credit card numbers
The PlayStation Network hack is now considered to be one among the biggest data thefts of all time, and according to the claims made by the alleged hackers on underground …
DSL Reports intrusion compromises over 9000 accounts
DSL Reports – the information and review site on high speed Internet services which operates over 200 forums – has been hit with a blind SQL injection attack, …
Millions stolen from U.S. businesses wired to Chinese companies
Small-to-medium sized businesses and public institutions are being targeted by fraudsters that compromise corporate banking credentials and transfer corporate funds to Chinese …
Malicious use of subdomain services surges
The malicious use of subdomain services by phishers nearly doubled in the second half of 2010, with phishing gangs using these services about as often as they register domain …
“You’ve got a postcard” spam emails lead to fake AV
Easter has come and passed, but the threat of bogus e-cards is alive as it ever was. This particular method of luring users to malicious pages or to download malicious …
Sony PlayStation Network compromised
A week after shutting down its PlayStation Network (PSN), Sony has finally come clean and admitted that its 70 million users’ personal information has been compromised …
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
If you followed our site over the years, you had the opportunity to read a little about some of the protagonists of this book: Max Vision the creator of CardersMarket, Albert …
Iran claims to have been targeted by second worm
If a statement from Gholam-Reza Jalali – the head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization – is to be believed, it seems that Iran’s computers have been …
Wardriving gang targeting small firms
A group of individuals who are believed to have been engaged in wardriving around Seattle and stealing personal and financial information from networks belonging to small area …
Carder pleads guilty to hacking and selling stolen card numbers
A carder and hacker that has been arrested in 2009 by the Secret Service for trying to sell 40 stolen card numbers to one of their undercover agents, has pleaded guilty to …
Gold-themed spam fishing for personal information
It is almost a rule of thumb that everything that might interest a large number of people makes for a good lure for spammers and scammers. From news regarding natural …
Software company Ashampoo breached, customer data stolen
The German computer software company Ashampoo has been targeted by attackers that managed to gain access to its customers database and possibly exfiltrated data such as names …
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